Description: Planners face a controversial task because their professional role requires them to be spokespersons for the public interest
Brief description:
Lawrence J. Vale is Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His books include Architecture, Power, and National Identity and Reclaiming Public Housing: A Half Century of Struggle in Three Public Neighborhoods.
Review Quotes:
"[A] useful reference, a collection to sample as one is introduced to the many ways the city can be imagined."
-- R. A. Beauregard, Choice
"[D]elightful... easily readable, thoughtful, and instructive for anyone concerned with the design and planning of cities-- [Kevin] Lynch would have found the essays fun, informative, and of broad value."
--D. Ryan, ARCADE--Architecture/Design in the Northwest